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Annual Report 2009 - BTC publishes its second sustainability report

For a second year in a row BTC draws up its Annual Report in the form of a sustainability report. That way, we want to openly communicate about the sustainability of our activities and about our successes and shortcomings. It is a way for us to show that we want to learn from lessons from the past in order to perform even better in future. Over the last decade the landscape of development cooperation has dramatically changed. The 2005 Paris Declaration fundamentally moved the centre of gravity in development relations to the developing countries themselves. In this changed context BTC has to reconsider itself and prepare for future challenges. BTC has to reinvent itself and become a second-generation development agency, which still is relevant in the 21st century and generates added value.One of the most urgent matters in this respect is the adaptation of the organisational structure to the new challenges that BTC is facing, and more in particular to the emergence of new forms of aid and the increasing budget per intervention. BTC’s mission and vision were held against the light and thoroughly reformulated in 2009. From now on, BTC positions itself as the Belgian development agency. BTC wants to take on all related responsibilities and doing so focuses on quality and transparency.